Kirsten Sinding-Larsen

Kirsten Sinding-Larsen (4 August 1898 – 10 December 1978) was a Norwegian architect.

She was born in Kristiania, the daughter of colonel Birger Fredrik Sinding-Larsen (1867–1941) and Emilie Rustad (1871–1904).[1][2] She was a paternal granddaughter of jurist and writer Alfred Sinding-Larsen, niece of physician Christian Magnus Sinding-Larsen, architect Holger Sinding-Larsen and painter Kristofer Sinding-Larsen, first cousin of architect Knut Martens Sinding-Larsen and journalist Henning Sinding-Larsen, third cousin of statistician Thomas Sinding and grandniece of architect Balthazar Lange.[3][4]

She finished her secondary education in 1912, and studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry from 1915 to 1917. She worked as an architect in Bergen from 1919 to 1921 and in Stockholm, Sweden from 1923 to 1932. She also studied architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology from 1927 to 1929. She returned to Oslo in 1932.[1] Her most notable single work was the design of Sunnaas Hospital in the 1950s. She is also remembered as a debater of housing policy.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Kirsten Sinding-Larsen" (in Norwegian). Sinding-Larsen.no. Retrieved 10 June 2010. Note that the short biography is translated from Från eftersatt till eftersökt. Kvinnliga studerande på KTH 1897-1945.
  2. ↑ Kiærland, Lars (1958). "Sinding-Larsen, Birger Fredrik". In Jansen, Einar; Svendsen, Paulus; Jansen, Jonas; Anker, Øyvind. Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian) 13 (1st ed.). Oslo: Aschehoug. pp. 380–381.
  3. ↑ Jansen, Einar; Svendsen, Paulus; Jansen, Jonas; Anker, Øyvind, ed. (1958). "Sinding family tree". Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian) 13 (1st ed.). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 356.
  4. ↑ Larsen, Øivind. "Christian Magnus Sinding-Larsen". In Helle, Knut. Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
  5. ↑ Henriksen, Petter, ed. (2007). "Kirsten Sinding-Larsen". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
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